Phelim Birch

Data Science graduate @UCC, Celtic sociolinguistics researcher, digitising historical Irish political boundaries at

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@ScottMoore0 @NI_AGI #AGINI26

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I had a fantastic day today at the @NI_AGI geospatial conference with @PhelimBirch!

We saw a lot of interest in Civgraph, our website for Ireland’s maps, Census and election data.

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Three more sets of digitised Dáil constituency maps now available on https://t.co/b93cOTi0UE

1969 (used in 1969 and 1973 elections)
1961 (used in 1961 and 1965 elections)
1959 (deemed unconstitutional, never used)

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I have recently digitised three sets of historic Dáil constituencies:

1983 (used in 1987 and 1989 elections)
1980 (used in 1981, Feb 1982 and Nov 1982 elections)
1974 (used in 1977 election)

All publicly accessible on https://t.co/b93cOTi0UE

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@ElecCommIRL Lmao

[Michael Fry @BigDirtyFry]

That’s your man, what’s his name, superman

[Marc 🏳️‍🌈🚍📚 @MarcWinsland]

Was doing a bit of research for work, and found a Wiki box wherein it gives the West of England Combined Authority a land area of 1,000,000km2 - which is about the same size as Egypt.

The math ain't mathin' on that one.

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Percentage of (self proclaimed) #Irish / #Gaeilge speakers in Ireland by county, 1851-2022

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Percentage of #Welsh / #Cymraeg speakers in Wales by historic county, 1891-2021

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Percentage of #Gaelic / #Gàidhlig speakers in Scotland by historic county, 1881-2022

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@UKLanguageMaps Alt version with a more consistent division

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Percentage of #Manx / #Gaelg speakers in the Isle of Man by local authority, 1901-2021

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Limerick and Waterford

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New District Electoral Division/ward maps now on https://t.co/b93cOTi0UE

1971 (Cork ward reform, Dublin ward reform, Limerick ward reform, Dublin DED reform)
1970 (Waterford ward reform)
1966 (Waterford extension)
1965 (Cork extension)
1957 (County Wicklow extension via Bray)

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Cork and Dublin

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I got recommended this a few months ago, genuinely incredible listen https://t.co/SfAPfAAcYC

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Visited the site of This House Believes That Political Correctness is Gay today

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@TomEDewey1948 @RealAlbanianPat Thanks! The CSO census maps go back a bit further to 2011, but I've had to put everything earlier than that together myself

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Incredible things are happening in Paris

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The government vibecoded a website with Claude where you can draw your own borders, rename the districts yourself and share it as an official proposal